Bodies

Each profile is built from governing documents where they are public, and says so plainly where they are not.

• Acts 29

  Partial — some structures are not publicly documented

• Anglican Church in North America

  1,027 congregations reported for 2024, a net increase of 14 over the previous year, and for the first time 27 congregations reporting average attendance above 500, up from 16.

• Catholic religious institutes

  Partial — some structures are not publicly documented

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

  Partial — some structures are not publicly documented

• Global Methodist Church

  More than 7,000 churches worldwide as of February 2026, across 48 annual conferences and four emerging areas, having reported more than 4,200 congregations in January 2024.

• Hillsong Church

  Hillsong does not publish a current count of locations, and no authoritative global figure was located for this profile.

• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

  8,304 congregations at the end of 2025, a loss of 128 during that year.

• Presbyterian Church in America

  1,667 churches as reported in 2024, a net gain of 22 over the previous year.

• Roman Catholic Church — dioceses and parishes

  Partial — some structures are not publicly documented

• The Episcopal Church

  Average Sunday attendance across the church was about 413,000 in 2024, essentially unchanged from 2023 after a post-pandemic recovery, against a decline of roughly 32% since 2014.

• The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

  Built from primary governing documents

• The Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans)

  Built from primary governing documents

• The Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

  Built from primary governing documents

• The Southern Baptist Convention

  46,608 churches reported in the 2025 Annual Church Profile — roughly twice the number of United Methodist congregations, in a body with far less machinery holding them together.

• The United Methodist Church

  22,096 United States congregations at the end of 2023, per the denomination's finance agency.